David Bellamy – Five Tips for Painting Snow Scenes in Watercolour
We're coming to the end of a rather strange year, and like many of you I am so thankful for being able to immerse myself in art, to take away the pain of lockdowns, social distancing and lack of travel...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Fun with Foregrounds
A Happy New Year to you all: I hope you had a great festive season and are looking forward to a better year ahead. Keeping our spirits up during these grim lockdown days is vital, and after so long...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting a Downland scene in winter
Today I have a winter scene on the Sussex Downs, which I did many years ago. A light coating of snow gives you the opportunity to bring in some colour while retaining the white of the paper where you...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting a mountain bothy
On Thursday 25th February I have a further online workshop with Shopkeepeasy where I will be demonstrating a mountain farm. You will be shown how to create a sense of place, bringing in local character...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting sheep and lambs in springtime
The onset of spring nearly always gives us all a sense of hopeful anticipation of more pleasing times to come, perhaps more so this year than ever before as we attempt to recover from this dreadful...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Introducing counterchange into a painting
One of the little subtleties I enjoy putting into my paintings is that of counter-change, sometimes simply to create a variation and sometimes out of necessity. In my recent workshop demonstration at...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting a Mountain Stream
Next Thursday at 3.30pm I will be running a 2 to 3- hour workshop on painting a waterfall with sunlight and autumn colours, and you are welcome to join me. I shall be showing you how to tackle many...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy -Painting stormy seas
This summer marks 40 years of my writing articles for Leisure Painter magazine, and the current issue (July 2021) contains an article celebrating this close relationship Continue reading →
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Creating a tranquil mood in a landscape painting
As many of you will be aware, I love painting wild seas crashing on a rugged coast, but there is much to be said for the calmer moments. To emphasise this you need to concentrate on the horizontal...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – The importance of your little blobs
I lost the bottom of the blue hull in the muddy foreshore and dotted in white gouache blobs here and there to add interest in suggesting seagulls. Continue reading →
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Creating Autumn Still Lifes
There's nothing like the process of experimenting with artistic ideas for stimulating our work, even if you have tried the particular process before. Continue reading →
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting limestone scenery in watercolour
The light falling on the limestone really made the rock stand out, particularly against the shadowy parts. Continue reading →
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Frolicking in the Desert
Most of this year I've been painting subjects from the Middle East, a part of the world I've been fascinated by since I first visited in 1963, and these works will illustrate my forthcoming book,...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting Snow Scenes
So here I will show you a pen and wash sketch I did of New Radnor church many years ago in beautiful snow conditions. Continue reading →
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting an tranquil evening sky
This watercolour shows a tranquil winter evening with Angle church forming the centre of interest. I've kept the main design in harmony with the emphasis on horizontals on the creek, the lie of the...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Warming up your Landscapes
Whether you are a serious artist intent on improving your work, or perhaps painting simply for enjoyment, it is so much more rewarding to create a composition where you can inject some of your own...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting massed trees in a landscape
It's usually a good idea to include a bright colour amongst duller ones as you can see in the bottom centre. The light is coming from the left so the edges on the right-hand side of the trees have...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Bringing atmosphere, drama and the sublime to a village painting
Two figures stand near the centre, drawing the eye - you don't need to make your figures large in order to emphasise the human aspect, but note how there is no detail behind them. Continue reading →
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Lost and Found effects in a painting
I shall be painting a similar scene to this as a demonstration at The Bookshop in East Grinstead at 7pm on Thursday 19th May. Phone 01342 322669 to book. Continue reading →
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – On-line painting demonstration
I recently dropped some new paintings including one o in to the Waterfront Gallery in Milford Haven (tel. 01646 695699), which is right on the quayside opposite the marina. They include one of St...
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